Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet. — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies… — Paul Dyson Copy Share Image
Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family… — Frederic Morton Copy Share Image
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a… — John Howard Copy Share Image
We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction,… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable. — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
